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toloa.

Headword: 
toloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to lower or incline the head (see Molina); to swallow

Alonso de Molina: 

toloa. ni. abaxar, o inclinar la cabeza.
toloa. nitla. (pret. onitlatolo.) tragar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 148v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents toloa in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

toloa = to swallow, to bow the head
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 186.